AS Roma_fan
Player Valuation: £750k
Just to be fair to Lazio...from a Roma fan.I was actually thinking the other day, TFG have bought 2 massive clubs in 2 two team cities, one named after the city (Roma) the other named after an area of the city (Everton) - Roma's rivals Lazio is named after an area of the city & The RS are the RS.
Bit mad.

I seize the chance to share some info that might be interesting to those of you who love history.
Actually their name doesn't come from an area of the city. It's instead the wider area around it. Historically, Latium Vetus (old Latium in Latin) was the region where the Latins lived, comprising roughly modern day Rome and the Latina province to the South. The name Latium comes from arcaic Latin and has the same root of the adjective latus, lata, latum (see "lato sensu") meaning broad, large. Large itself, the English adjective, comes from Latin, from the exact same root.
So Latium designed a broad, flat area south of the river Tiber where the Latin civilisation was born around the VIII century BC or even before. North of the river lived the Etruscans, and the divide wasn't a small one as the Latins were Indo-Europeans while the Etruscans weren't.
Today Lazio, the Italian version of the same name, is also one of the 20 regions of Italy, comprising also areas of Etruscan and Faliscan heritage north of Rome (I live there!).
But when Lazio - the football team - was established in 1900, the Lazio region didn't exist, so It was certainly a tribute to the historical region of Latium Vetus.
Why they chose to brand themselves like that when the name "Roma" was still available is an object of debate to this day.
